Jewish cemetery (Luže)

Coordinates: 49 ° 53 ′ 45.9 ″  N , 16 ° 2 ′ 49.9 ″  E

Jewish cemetery (Luže)​

Czech Republic

Jewish cemetery in Luže

The Jewish cemetery Luže is a Jewish cemetery in the small Czech town of Luže (German Lusche ) in Okres Chrudim .

The cemetery east of the city, where burials were carried out until the Second World War , was probably laid out in the first half of the 17th century. The oldest gravestones date from this time . In addition to the East Bohemian asymmetrical steles , the Baroque and Art Nouveau gravestones are particularly valuable. The inscriptions are written in Hebrew , Hebrew- Czech , Hebrew-German and Czech-German languages.

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